NASA Announces Briefing on Carbon Mission Science Results

This most recent artist's rendering shows NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO)-2, one of five new NASA Earth science missions set to launch in 2014, and one of three managed by JPL. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech› Full image and caption

NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11
a.m. PDT (2 p.m. EDT) Thursday, Oct. 12, to discuss new research to be
published this week on changing global levels of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere. The research is based on data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon
Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission and other satellites.

NASA launched OCO-2 in 2014 to gather global
measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide with the resolution, precision and
coverage needed to understand how this important greenhouse gas moves through
the Earth system and how it changes over time.